April 22, 2012
Spring Awakening
I took music history in college for no real reason other than that I needed the hours and the class was open. Yet in some strange way, it was the most important course I ever took.
The teacher was a wild-haired German immigrant who would lecture from his piano bench. As a teenager, he had been herded by the Nazis into halls in Berlin to be indoctrinated with German nationalism. As a young man, he had been forced to serve in the German military. Somehow—he never told us
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